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Well, we’ve made it into the history books yet again! As of Tuesday, November 4, 2008, Barack Obama became our first African-American President-Elect. With only 270 electoral votes needed to secure the presidency, Barack secured his rightful place in history and in the White House with 338 votes. Aside from winning the “expected” states such as his home state of Illinois, Obama swept across the nation and secured many of the key states, most upsetting for the McCain campaign were the wins in of Pennsylvania (McCain’s “must have” state), Virginia, and Florida. The watch parties for both candidates held stark differences as well. The Chicago watch party at Grant Park in Obama’s home state of Illinois was celebratory and hopeful as results were constantly available for viewers while the Phoenix watch party in the Biltmore district in McCain’s state was much more somber and did not show the audience the status of the election as votes came in.
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Written by: ~ MacKinzey |
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::09:22:08::
You may be thinking low class hummm that's an interesting title. When flying you may think that you purchased a "coach" ticket. But with American Airlines it should be considered “Low Class”. It all started when I was checking my bags, can you believe it's $15 for each bag?! So for two bags round trip that’s $60.00 in the hole!! I’m boarding the old school S80 airplane; of course passing by "First Class" thinking I’d like to have some elbow room too!
Ok now we take off with in a fully loaded underpowered plane. 15 minutes later I'm thinking ok “honey roasted peanut time” is coming, it should makeup for sitting in the "Low Class" section. But these days those lovely peanuts will cost ya $3 - $4 for a “Snack Pack”. And oh do you want a drink with that, how about some free water?
So I'm convinced that the old Coach is the new Low Class!!
Written by: ~ Jblu |
::07:16:08::
Now I know that just about every cool person on the block was waiting for the iPhone to hit stores. Let me tell you our house was no exception to the rule.
Round one started when my dude was one of early risers to make it to a local AT&T store to cop the iPhone. The poor brother made it to the desk and was turned away because he didn't have his drivers license! Poor fella had to spend most of the day singing the “should’ve, could’ve, would'ves”.
Round two came when I got home and just so happened to call the nearest Apple store and found out they had some iPhone’s left. The line wasn’t too bad and amidst all the chaos, the Apple store representatives were able to wrangle all of us into a line that would around the “aisles” of the store. The wait wasn’t too bad as there was always something to play with during our wait, iPods, computers, display iPhone’s. The surprising thing was that they offered us water when we first came in. As it was about 102 degrees at 6:30 pm, I think we all appreciated that our “needs” were taken into consideration. Two hours later, we were met my Jared and he happily set us up with our new I-phones and the AT&T network.
I kid you not, maybe an hour and a half after bringing these things home, My Iphone starts crackling and out go the speakers! Real talk. Well seeing we have to wait until the next day to get it fixed, I went to bed while my dude takes full advantage of our corporate discount and adds it to our plan... Which they warn you about while waiting on line for your phone. The folks at the Apple store made it known that if you want a corporate discount added to your plan you have to go through AT&T wireless for both the phone, the plan and the discount (something they call direct fulfillment). Well our round about way of going things bit us in the butt later.
So the next day we show up to get my phone situated. I am escorted to the front of the line to an Apple genius that basically replaced my brand new phone with another one. I kid you not, right when he was going to hand me my phone, he days " oops we can't complete this transaction, there is a hold". Guess what the hold was? That damn discount! So we get the discounts taken off so we can get 'er dun and walk five minutes down the road to AT&T to get things squared away. Man by the time we get to AT&T, stand in line for less than 5 minutes (because they were sold out of phones), and walk back to the Apple store, we find out that “Oops, sorry guys, we just sold out of phones”.
On our last attempt up get this mess together we drive 20 minutes to another location. Things go smoothly there, or so we thought. I get my phone and another new number (the old number was attached to the other phone and therefore inaccessible), we go over our plan one more time (1400 shared minutes, unlimited data and texts for under 200... sweet I know) and all seems well. Little did know that instead of canceling my old number, they cancel my man's number that we ported over when we bought the phones and joined AT&T. Let me tell you, this was the last straw for both of us! It took about 10 calls to customer service (8 of which we dropped), one technical case ticket that specifically asked for them to re- instate a number that should never have been cancelled and my talking to every rep they would listen to get this number back. After all that it still took almost a day and a half for both of us to get the two functioning phones we paid for. I will hand it to AT&T though; they took care of us (cuz u know they didn't want to hear from me again).
Now that everything is working, I must say that this phone is so worth the money. It simplifies even the most boring life and everything you want is in your hand, email, videos, songs, and Internet! As a matter of fact I am typing this post right from my phone. How pimp is that?!! I must say I now have nothing to complain about... Then again you might want to check back after we get our first bill!
Written by: ~ MacKinzey |
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::09:18:07::
Ok now that summer is over and the year 2007 is slowly coming to a close, I figured I would start my New Year’s Resolution months early. What is it you ask? Of course it’s to “Lose Weight”! I mean isn’t that everyone’s resolution every year? Anyway, I’m browsing through all the new fad diets trying to figure out which ones are the most effective and all. I looked at the South Beach Diet which wasn’t going to work because I didn’t feel like giving up my extra hour of sleep to cook some crazy egg white omelet. I looked at the Atkins which starves you to the point of nervous break down, loads you up on protein and then slowly introduces carbs back in the picture, I’m not down for that. Then of course there’s the good old Carbohydrate Addict’s (hello my name is **Bleep** and I’m a Carbohydrate Addict) diet, which deprives you of carbs the majority of the day to the point that you’re just famished by the time you actually get to have them (at dinner of course). Obviously I’m not disciplined enough to do any of those diets I’ve just mentioned so in furthering my study I ran into a old friend that was on something called the Raw Diet. Yeah, I said it, the PRIMAL RAW diet. We caught up and talked a little bit about our lives which inevitably led to his new diet. I mean brotha was just chillin drinking a mixture of milk, RAW eggs and honey out of a empty syrup jar! He drank that like it was the best thing ever and swore up and down that it was safe and effective. Well folks, I’m here to give you a little back ground on the newest dieting fad.
The Primal Raw Food (Paleolithic) diet is a carnivorous, low carbohydrate raw foods diet. This is basically a diet that was based on the practices of the cave men. Very nice. People on this diet eat just about everything RAW such as meat, fish, fruit, leaves, roots of plants, mushrooms, nuts, eggs and honey. Now that that’s established, lets go on to what you can’t eat. You cannot have any veggies that are not edible raw (grains), starchy vegetables (beans and potatoes) certain nuts (cashews) or refined sugars. Interestingly enough, you can have no dairy products because they cannot be found easily in nature. Oh, and no WATER, unless it’s naturally sparkling water. You can drink it if you want but it’s not needed. WHAT?! Ain’t that crazy?! Apparently all the juices from the fruits you are taking it should provide enough so you don’t need WATER!
Now, on this diet, you generally intake 2/3 plant product (to cover the water you AREN’T drinking) and 1/3 animal product. Back to this raw meat jive. You should be looking for farmed meats such as free range poultry to grass fed beef, quail or rabbit. Now, you can warm this meat if you want to but it’s not required and if you choose to do so, it can’t be via microwave ovens and may be heated to room temperature, or up to 41 degrees. Lovely.
After I did my research, I figured that once again, this diet wasn’t for me. So what have I chosen to get me started on my path to weight loss? Um… the gym and the typical diet of eat less calories and burn more! Ha.. while all you RAW foodies order a plate of RAW T-Bone steak with freshly cracked RAW eggs, I’ll be munching down on my Chef Salad, Light Ranch on the side please, oh yeah, and a glass of WATER!
Written by: ~ MacKinzey |
::08:26:07::
So today Michael Vick plead Guilty to dog fighting charges. Am I surprised? Heck no. Do I feel sorry for him? Heck no. I don’t understand why everyone is making him the victim. Like he didn’t know what he was doing. Talking about “I didn’t kill the dogs but I was there when it happened” or “I wasn’t betting on the fights but I was financing them”. Shut up! He’s the one who sent out the order to kill the dogs that didn’t perform. He was the master mind behind the whole operation and then folks have the nerve to make him sound like he had no idea what’s going on. My question is: Why should I feel sorry for him? Granted, he’s not the only dude in the world that participates in dogfights but like I said, he knew what he was doing. That whole situation could have been handled differently, euthanize those dogs instead of subjecting them to such gruesome executions. Interesting connection (of course I’m not insinuating anything), serial killers usually perfect their execution styles via torturing and killing animals. That goes to show that there is no remorse in taking a life, be it animal or whatever. Like those folks didn’t know that if you hold a dog underwater long enough or hang them long enough or shock them with a high enough current, would result in death. Ya’ll want to make the argument that their “just dogs” and mess. Well if that’s the case, why can you serve more time for animal cruelty than for beating the spit out of your wife? Explain the logic in that and then we’ll talk. I don’t want to hear about Poor Mike Vick being victimized by the legal system. Give me a break. Finding 55 dogs (really, who needs that many dogs) on property, admitted to killing 8 and you’re still going try to maintain your innocence? What? You didn’t bury the dogs but you bought plots for them? Be for real!
Written by: ~ MacKinzey |
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